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LONDON – Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corp. of using taxpayers’ money to build a “digital empire” that would compete with commercial rivals. The BBC, which receives about 3 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) a year in public funding, has announced plans to relaunch its Web …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Namibian authorities are clamping down on journalists trying to follow Brad Pitt, pregnant Angelina Jolie and her two adopted children after the couple asked for some privacy, according to a newspaper report Sunday. South Africa’s Sunday Times said the couple’s security chief gave a local journalist …

LONDON – Two men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of making a damaging disclosure by leaking a memo which included references to U.S. President George W. Bush talking of bombing Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera. David Keogh, 49, a former Cabinet Office spokesman, and Leo O’Connor, 42, a former researcher for …